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The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness

Fisher's fundamental theorem states that natural selection improves mean fitness. Fitness, in turn, is often equated with population growth. This leads to an absurd prediction that life evolves to ever-faster growth rates, yet no one seriously claims generally slower population growth rates in...

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Autor principal: Kokko, Hanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8596016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34784767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2145